Data Product Manager

Barclays; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Data Product Manager to lead transformative data initiatives within the Business Banking domain. This role involves overseeing cross-functional teams to develop cloud-based data products, ensuring stakeholder needs are met while driving significant change across the bank. The ideal candidate will possess strong data management skills, product management experience, and the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders. Join a forward-thinking organization where your leadership will help reshape the data landscape and enhance operational effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data concepts and product management experience.
• Proactive leadership and effective stakeholder engagement are essential.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners and technical teams for product development.
• Monitor product performance and identify optimization opportunities.

Skills

Data Concepts

Product Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Leadership

Backlog Management

Agile Delivery

Tools

Jira

Job description

Join us as a Data Product Manager at Barclays, where you'll play a key role in transforming our data foundations as part of the BUK Data Foundations Program. Supporting the Business Banking domain, you'll oversee feature teams building cloud-based data products and delivering reporting solutions that enable us to move away from legacy systems like BIW. While you won’t be directly involved in technical delivery, you'll be instrumental in leading and motivating cross-functional teams, managing priorities and backlogs, allocating resources, and ensuring stakeholder needs are translated into high-value outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to help reset our data landscape and drive real change across the bank.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Strong understanding of data concepts.
• Product management experience, including workflow organisation.
• Effective stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Proactive, driven, and motivational leadership.
• Ability to manage backlogs and prioritise work across teams.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Agile delivery experience.
• Familiarity with Jira.
• Understanding of the Business Banking domain.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The successful candidate can either be based in Northampton or Knutsford.

Purpose of the role

To collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap.

Accountabilities

• Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.
• Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
• Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the bank's performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, performance appraisal, and reward determination.
• Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured tasks, identifying the need for other areas of expertise to complete assignments. Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, integrating cross-functional methodologies to meet outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; provide advice to People Leaders to support resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop policies/procedures supporting control and governance.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls related to the work.
• Perform work closely related to other areas, requiring understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to organizational objectives.
• Collaborate with other work areas to stay aligned with business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex data analysis from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information clearly, including sensitive or difficult content.
• Influence stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and embody the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.